Thug holds knife to stranger's throat and drags her into churchyard in terrifying sex attack bid

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knife the throat of a teenage Good Samaritan to steal his expensive mountain bike has been jailed. Gary Maxwell, 34, pretended to 17-year-old Mark Cooper that he needed to know when the next bus was due to arrive.

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Roman Kemp has been seen breaking down in tears as he honestly opened up on struggling with suicidal thoughts a year before his friend’s tragic death. Capital Breakfast star Roman, 28, tragically lost his best friend Joe Lyons after he took his own life in August last year.

before pulling her to the floor and molesting her.

Monday’s Oscar nominations announcement was a whirlwind for “One Night in Miami” writer Kemp Powers, who scored a Best Adapted Screenplay nod for the Amazon Studios drama. The only sore spot? Regina King, who made her directorial debut with the film adaptation of Powers’ play, was shut out of the Best Director category.“I think she’s one of the best directors in the world, I really do.

Ross Kemp has opened up about his continued support of Scott Mitchell in the wake of Dame Barbara Windsor’s death.The Carry On icon and EastEnders star passed away December after her battle with Alzheimer’s, aged 83. Ross - who played Grant Mitchell, Barbara’s on screen son in the BBC soap - told us that her husband, Scott is a “true friend.” “I was very much involved and I'm still close to Scott.

pervert who sexually abused a young mum while she slept has been jailed. Brazen John Jeffery struck while the woman was sleeping in the bottom of a bunk bed.

Korn will play a “groundbreaking” livestream gig from the set of the Stranger Things: The Drive-Into Experience, it has been announced.‘Korn: Monumental’ will take place on April 24 at 9pm BST and will be broadcast around the world from the California location.According to a press release, the concert will feature “rare and sought-after deep cuts and classics” from across their back catalogue, as well as provide the live debuts for songs from the band’s latest album ‘The Nothing’.Tickets are

link!Passing sentence, Sheriff Linda Nicolson told Loudon: “It’s clear custody is the only option.“You have a long record for violence and disorder, including offences where weapons were involved.”

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicJoining Variety for its first-ever all-music edition of the “Strictly Business” podcast is Sony Music Group chairman Rob Stringer, who oversees the standalone labels Columbia, RCA, Epic and Arista Records as well as Sony Music Publishing and The Orchard and leads a staff of more than 5,000 employees around the world.Stringer has spent his entire professional career in the Sony system, starting out as a marketing trainee in his native U.K., then moving up

direct to your inboxDetectives investigating a sex attack in a village wood have issued a CCTV image of a man they would like to speak to.The incident happened in Tinkers Wood, Bollington, near Macclesfield.Between 8.11pm and 10pm on Saturday February 27th a teenage girl was with friends in the Hurdsfield area when she became separated from them.A man aged around 19 to 20 years old befriended the girl and walked off with her to the wood where the assault took place.

jailed for three years and four months.William Trainor, 29, burst into his victim’s home in Gretna in the early hours of March 15, 2019.Trainor, also of Gretna, was convicted of assaulting the woman with intent to rape her in January 2020.He was also convicted of possessing a handgun and sentence had been deferred to the High Court in Edinburgh for the court to obtain reports about his character.On Wednesday, judge Alison Stirling told Trainor that the offence was so serious there was no

Bolton man has been convicted of dragging a stranger into a churchyard, holding a knife to her throat and trying to take her trousers off.

Game Of Thrones actor Indira Varma has joined the cast of the upcoming Star Wars series Obi Wan Kenobi.The Disney+ series will see Ewan McGregor reprise his role as the Jedi master and reunite with Hayden Christiansen, who will take on the role of Darth Vader after starring as Anakin Skywalker alongside McGregor in the Star Wars prequel trilogy. The spin-off series is set to arrive in 2022.Now, Varma, best known for her role as Ellaria Sand in Game Of Thrones, has been confirmed as a new

Queen who was jailed last month for a sex attack on a guest at his castle has been denied bail ahead of a planned appeal against his sentence later this year. Simon Bowes-Lyon,34, is serving 10 months for pushing his way into a 26-year-old woman’s room during a promotional weekend he was hosting at Glamis Castle, Angus, in February 2020.